Most managers are just trying to survive. That's why a lot of smarter guys have been let go from Fortune 500 companies: because they came up with new ideas that no one would allow them to try.
Hacking involves a different way of looking at problems that no one's thought of.
Bureaucracy kills people's ability to try new ideas.
Problem-solving, inventing, hacking and coding is more of an adrenaline rush of endorphins rather than a feeling.
If you've made enough money where you're not worried about the rent or survival, you start asking yourself why you're on this planet. Your point is to do the most good you can before you die - well, I could do more good if I didn't die.
My left brain has gradually 'eaten' the right-brain capabilities away.
Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
Humans have 3 percent human error, and a lot of companies can't afford to be wrong 3 percent of the time anymore, so we close that 3 percent gap with some of the technologies. The AI we've developed doesn't make mistakes.
A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
We have a 25-year head start for the stories of 'Scorpion.' By the time we get to Season Two and Three, the stuff that happened because of Season One will actually fuel Season Three. So it'll become a self-sustainable show.
At Sussex University, I developed a system called WinLocX to help with the process of translating software into foreign languages.
It's a pleasure to contribute to the entrepreneurial community at USC.
It's common in rural Ireland to pick up a nickname that relates to an animal, bird, or a spider. Mine became 'scorpion' because I fought back, and scorpions are docile creatures until pushed too far.